>> i support a strong national defense but not a bloated defense department. there are savings we can find there. i would never support cuts to any of the safety nets medicare, medicaid, social security. my opponent privatizing under president bush. >> after my mom dad my mom and i got social security survivor that helped me to go to college and helped my mom to go to college. she paid her taxes on the promise that these programs would be there for her. we'll honor those programs. the best way to do it is to reform it for my generation. if you reform it for those 54 and below they will not change for those at or near retirement, which is exactly what mitt romney and i are proposing. >> cenk: your response to that. >> we know what he means by reform. let's not have cost of living adjustments, we need to remove the cap on social security and that makes the program solvent for generations as well. that's an easy fix. my opponent just doesn't want to practice common sense. he wants to make sure that those reforms that he's talking about would be privatizing social